The first leg ended Malmö FF-Sivasspor 3-1. All is set for the decider in this Europa League Play-offs fixture!
These teams have little in common geographically as Malmö FF have to travel 3500 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Sivasspor and Malmö FF.
Sivasspor form and stats
Sivasspor participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the group stage.Sivasspor have less points than they have played home games in the Super Lig so far. Their two previous attempts here have produced 2 points.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Sivasspor, who played 1-1 against Alanyaspor. That match was also played at this venue (Yeni Sivas 4 Eylül Stadyumu). Appindangoyé, defender, was given a rating of 7.61/10 in that game, top of the team. Appindangoyé hit one key pass and won 4 of 4 duels.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sivasspor as they are travelling to their away game against Besiktas in the Super Lig. That match is four days after this one.
Sivasspor has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Malmö FF form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated F91 Dudelange in order to reach play-offs of Europa League. Last season their Europa League adventure ended in the play-offs.3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Malmö FF playing as the away team in the Allsvenskan this season. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away.
Malmö FF are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Mjallby. Peña got a match rating of 7.74 in that game, top player of the team. Peña hit three key passes and had 50 successful passes (of 61 total).
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Kalmar in just three days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Malmö FF as they have only managed to score 8 times from 10 away games in the league. Malmö have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams faced each other earlier this campaign: Malmö FF - Sivasspor 3-1.
Top Goalscorers
  I. Thelin 7 goals |  V. Birmančević 5 goals | P. Sejdiu 3 goals |
Sivasspor missing players
Malmö FF missing players
| Sivasspor | Malmö FF | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 2 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 6 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 33 | 16 | Scored | S | 12 | 39 | ||
| 33 | 11 | Conceded | C | 17 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 77% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 23% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 60% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 28% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 6.1 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 9.6 | 9.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.8 | 15.6 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 5.4 | ||
| 35% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 29% | ||
| 10.5 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 9.7 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Fenerbahçe | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 7 |
| 2 | Istanbul Basaksehir | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| 3 | Besiktas | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | Gazisehir Gaziantep | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Antalyaspor | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Adana Demirspor | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Giresunspor | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | Galatasaray | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | Trabzonspor | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | Konyaspor | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 11 | Alanyaspor | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | Kayserispor | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 13 | Sivasspor | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| 14 | Ankaragucu | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 15 | Umraniyespor | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 16 | Hatayspor | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 17 | Fatih Karagumruk | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 0 |
| 18 | Istanbulspor | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -7 | 0 |
| 19 | Kasimpasa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -11 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Häcken | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 44 | 25 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 19 | 41 |
| 2 | Hammarby | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 26 | 39 |
| 3 | Djurgården | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 40 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 25 | 38 |
| 4 | AIK | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 35 |
| 5 | Malmö FF | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 34 |
| 6 | IFK Göteborg | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 30 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 30 |
| 8 | Mjallby | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 28 |
| 9 | Sirius | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -6 | 25 |
| 10 | Elfsborg | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 33 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 24 |
| 11 | Norrköping | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 20 |
| 12 | Varberg | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -16 | 20 |
| 13 | Varnamo | 19 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 29 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 22 | -10 | 19 |
| 14 | Helsingborg | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -15 | 14 |
| 15 | Degerfors | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 24 | -25 | 12 |
| 16 | GIF Sundsvall | 19 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 18 | 48 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 22 | -30 | 10 |
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